Carriage Return/Linefeed Character Removal for a CLOB variable

Hi,
Can anyone let me know how I can remove the carriage return from a CLOB variable.
I tried the replace function
REPLACE(D_MessageText, CHR(10)), it doesn't give any error,but the output still has the new line character.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Regards,
Anil.

chr(10) takes care of LINEFEED
chr(13) takes care of CARRIAGE RETURN

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At database side
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